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Extensively Annotated In Latin & Greek
IN a Contemporary Hand
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AESCHINES/DEMOSTHENES. [ED REUCHLIN, Johannes]. ТΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ ΕΞΟΧΩΝ ΡΗΤΟΡΩΝ Άισχινου καί Δημοσθενους…Graeciae excellentissium Oratorum, Aeschinis & Demosthenis, orations adversariae. Paris, Christian Wechel, 1543.
Two extremely rare separately issued Paris student editions of Morceaux choisis of two of the Attic orators as edited by the great German humanist Reuchlin, along with an early, if not the earliest separate edition of Isocrates’ Helen, editorship apparently anonymous.
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AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS. Rerum Gestarum qui de XXXI supersunt Libri XVIII. Ed. Jacob Gronovius. Leiden, Pieter Van der Aa, 1693.
First Gronovius edition, with extensive commentary and extensive illustrations; it remained the definitive edition for well over a century.
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Early and Influential French Translation of the Decameron—
The First Done Directly from the Italian,
Bound in 18th-Century French Morocco
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BOCCACCIO, Giovanni / LE MAÇON, Antoine, tr.. Le Decameron de Maistre Jean Bocace Florentin, traduict de Italien en Françoys. Paris, Jean Ruelle, 1572.
Very rare illustrated pocket edition (first 1545; Mortimer 106) of the second French translation of Boccaccio’s Decameron, and the first done directly from Italian, important for its influence on both French and English literature.
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[LIBERTINISM / ACADEMIES] BRUSONI, Girolamo / LOREDANO, Giovanni Francesco. Le glorie de gli Incogniti o vero gli huomini illustri dell'Accademia de' signori Incogniti di Venetia. Venice, 1647.
Rare first edition of this portrait book of members of the Venetian Accademia degli Incogniti, representing a Who’s Who of the more libertine and belligerent literati of early 17th-century northern Italy: of particular interest to women’s studies and the history of music.
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EARLY EPIC NARRATIVE OF EL CID
WITH FULL-PAGE HERALDIC WOODCUTS
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CID, Ruy Diaz de Vivar. Chronica del Famoso Cavallero Cid Ruy Diaz Campeador. Burgos, Philippe de Junta, 1593.
Rare, most likely 4th edition of this Spanish classic in the redaction of Fr. Juan Lopez de Velorado.
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